This week on WDD’s HotSpot:
Smart Habitat Puts a Rainforest Right in Your Home
Biopod is an app-controlled microhabitat that automatically regulates temperature, light, humidity, and ventilation so you can grow anything right in your home, office, or classroom – from herbs to vegetables – or care for a rainforest pet, such as reptiles, amphibians.
There’s Free Wi-Fi in the Pavement
Virgin Media has started an innovative new push for stronger cable-free internet access, sticking superfast internet right beneath our feet with a WiFi-enabled “Smart Pavement.”
Sixteen Year Old Invents World’s Safest Wireless Headphones
Aegis Pro is the world’s first studio-quality, wireless headphones, outfitted with jamsDEFENDER technology, which combines volume-limiting, active noise cancellation and a digital decibel equalizer that optimizes the originally recorded volume of whatever you’re listening to.
The (Almost) Autonomous Car Is Here
Owners of Tesla Model S and Model X electric vehicles woke up recently to cars suddenly empowered to drive themselves down the road. The company’s software update—Tesla Version 7.0, installed via WiFi—includes its new Autopilot technology, which imparts a degree of autonomy to the high-tech cars.
